If you change the specs to the challenge, any thing is possible.

Advice you should take to heart. From the OP:

Since warnings are supposed to be avoided, use strict; use warnings;

My version does not produce warnings under the terms the unmodifies rules of the challenge. Note:the localisation and setting of $^W=0.

The original terms of the challenge call for it to not produce warnings when run under use warnings. Yours does. The local $^W stuff doesnt have the effect you think it does when used under use warnings; It works the way you think it does when run under only "-w" but that isnt the same thing. It also doesnt work the way you think it does when run under both "-w" and use warnings;. From perllexwarn:

If a piece of code is under the control of the warnings pragma, both the $^W variable and the -w flag will be ignored for the scope of the lexical warning.

Also, next time try running the code before you get so insistant it works the way you think it does....

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